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,'WilINI!lllN!HIIIKtWIIW'laMimnilMMIIMHa1! ihIihEiIsSbIIh lllliMllllllllltlllllllUllllllllltllllillllltlllltlllill Weather News On 1-mlnute blast en (Irani and whlitlN It the signal lor blackout In Klamath Falls. Another long blast, during black out. li signal ior all-clear. In precau tionary periods, watch your street lights. 'June i. High 71, Low 44 Precipitation of Juno it, 1(43 - Liit y ... isi Normal ........ 11.10 Stream year to data ....................... 13.01 ASSOCI Mnjivijii( Jug SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES j-ifi njruvrLruvvvv,Lnjrrijn . - PRIOR FIVE CENTS ' KLAMATH FALUS, OREGON. TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1942 "Number 9509 M fo) IF. X m nfo)fo)sfo) o") r nY nV) 11! i NATIONWIDE ' l l LJ u u z By FRANK JENKINS frltS Berlin radio today quotes an unnamed Jap admlrnl as saying: "One enn not always ex pect to win vlctorlei but muit alio bo ablo to stand Ilium." ' Th&l SGUiidn linv p i"C pii t i) 5 tliS Japanese people for bad ncwi. (The Jnp rndlo ha no fur re mained totully silent about Mid Way.) YOU need not doubt for a mo memt that the Jnp lilvh com mand If worried. 1 1 Intory tolls us plainly that no conqueror ever lived (no matter know absoluto nil power) who wasn't worried over tho effect of bad news at home. o ""TODAY'S dispatches give us a bit of eye-witness testimony as to the Midway bad news for Japan. Ensign George Gay, of Hous ton, Texas, shot down after he had launched a torpedo from his plan Into a bis Jap aircraft car rier, iloated on a life-preserver hidden under a seat cushion and for 14 hours watched the show. ! He watched-other US torpedo planes score direct hits on two other Jap carriers with resultant Internal explosions that ripped their sides, He saw American ' planes blast other Japs and watched a Una o( enemy ships pass ' close " by him billowing smoke and flames trttfarthe sklas. , 47PCAKINO of the Berlin radio, 4 you may be quite sure that Hitler also Is worried over Mid way. Above everything else, he wants Japan to smack Russia from the rear, when he hits her with all he has from tho front A few more Midways and Japan won't be interested In tak ing on NEW enemies. -pEARL HARBOR today Joins r Washington In predicting a new Jap blow in an effort to save face after the Midway de feat.' '. . Another of history's plain les sons Is that 'quickly following victories are POWERFULLY DE HIRED as an offset to defeats. Sometimes, long chances have beon taken In order to achlove them. ) Don't be surprised If the Jnps hit hard again SOON. XJIDWAY was largoly an AIR 11 victory. That lends point to this statement In London today by Marshal A. T. Harris, British air chief: .. . "TEN THOUSAND bombers a night, nearly low times the number used In our greatest air attack yot, Tnay soon fly over Germany, Including hundreds flying DIRECTLY FROM AMER ICA with , formidable . bomb loads." ' ' . . Ho addsi' "Some ' people V argue that heavy bombing will not win wars. To them I answer that II hasn't been tried yet. Whon It Is, Gormany will be tho ex- : perlment and Jnpnn will bo Uie confirmation," That Is to say, It will be tried .on Gormany and (allowed up against Japan. ; r : WfHERE will these thousands of plnncs come from? '' Nelson, U. S. production boss, speaking at the University of Missouri commencement .oxer- clses today, says: This year wo shall moke SIXTY THOUSAND olrplanes and by tho end of tho year we shall bo picking up speed for EVEN FASTER production in 1943." Ho adds: ' ' r. "Wo havo found that our total production of war goods Is high er than wo had any reason to suppose it COULD BE when the 1 blueprints were prepared.". As an example, ho cites one factory that was designed to pro duce SO planes a month but Is now found to hava a capacity of nearly 180 por month, t. . . J-JOW are wo doing it? Nelson explains: "Managers, onglnccrs, fore men and workors are working (Continued on Page Two) , Tokyo Radio Prepares People for Bad News, Report , By The Associated Press The Japaneso fleet which es caped after a terrific pounding In the bottle of Midway was re ported limping westward to the refuge of home woters today, while on the Cnlna war front. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's Chinese armies were said to have thrown a strategic Japanese vic tory Into reverse. ' Without specifically mention ing tho Japanese naval disaster at Midway, Tokyo dispotches quoted by the1 Berlin radio to day suggested tht Japan may be preparing her 'people for bad news. "One cannot always eetpect victories but must also be able to stand losses," -the- broadcast quoted an unnamed Japanese admiral ai saying. ' So fur, the'Tokyoi radio hoiJ maintained' silence oh the Mid way sea fight. ' 1 , Developments on China's east coast seomed momentarily swing ing a little more in favor of Gen. Chiang's armies, but the Chinese acknowledged that-, reinforced Japanese Invasion columns were again advancing along the Bur ma road into far southwest China. " A Chungking military spokes man said Chinese troops wiped out a Japanese invasion force which had gained a foothold at Chuhslcn, key roil center of western Chcklung province, and regained possession of , the city. Chcklung, , on China's east coast, is Important as a potential baso for allied air attacks on Japan. , The Chlncso had previously acknowledged loss of tho Chuh slcn airport ' and a Japanese thrust Into the town itself, fol (Continued on Page Two) "Don't Bother Me With Any More : Draft Papers!" . PORTLAND, June 9 '(P) A Mcdford man, who wrote His draft board, "I am resigning my citizenship, don't bother me with any more draft papers," found out today It wasn't that simple. Fred William Barfoot, 35, pleaded Innocent before Federal Judgo James A. Fee to an in dlctmont charging failure to file his solcctlve service ques tionnaire and failure . to keep his board notified of his where abouts, . Deputy U. S, Attorney Ed ward Twining said Barfoot, who registered at , Bonanza, . once wroto his draft board, "I refuse to support this unconstitutional government," as well as the "resignation of citizenship" let ter. His trial was set for June 24. House Rejects Surplus Grain Plan WASHINGTON, June 9 (P) Tho house rejected and sent back to conference today senate amendments to tho annual agri culture appropriation bill under which surplus grains could havo been sold for prices below par ity. The standing voto of 125 to 57 by which the house rejected the scnato proposals followed a plea by Majority Leader McCormack (D-Moss.) for their adoption and a warning by farm bloe leaders that the amendments would pave tho way for destruction of the entire parity program of sup porting ' farm prices, ClElfPE DUTJAP FORGE AT CHUHSIEN T One of the Ways mmmmmmam mmmmmmmmm H'.' :!.: 'VrMcWmwB.'.'. ., There are approximately ' 5000 That's the number of auto that I'll the norma) 'rate on the, gsjoltne lost when one .tanker rloaded'' with gat is sunk by an axis submarine, ; f. : : .. Present Bus Routes Frbien : As ODT Takes Over Control WASHINGTON. June 9 (AP) The office of defense transpor tation took war-time control to day over all of the nation's Inter city bus operations, ordering present routes frozen, competi tive service pooled, and all ex press service discontinued. The order is effective July 1. After that date, ODT directed, no Intcr-clty buses may be oper ated "for the prlmory purpose" of serving golf courses, athletic fields, race tracks, theatres, dancing pavilions, or ; "other places conducted primarily for the purpose of amusement or entertainment." . . An ODT spokesman said this would affect bus . service to beaches and other rcsorta pro vided the buses were used prim arily to take passengers to such places. In addition, except for one dally round trip, bus companies must discontinue schedules which fail to show an average load In both directions of more than 40 per cent of tho seating capacity of the buses used. Oper ators are required . to keep records of passenger miles and seat miles and report to ODT any round trip schedule which fails to meet the seating capacity re quirement. 'Tho "express service" to' bo discontinued is. the fast, gener ally through service system, It wns said at the ODT, and not tho carrying of merchandise for hire, which ,1s not affected. "Intcr-clty ' bus . service," as defined by . the order, excludes runs within 5 miles of city lim its and schedules on which the average faro is 35 cents or less, The order prohibits any exten Navy Blimps Will Patrol Coastline PORTLAND, Juno 9 (iP) Navy blimps will patrol the Oregon and Washington coasts from a base to. be established at Tillamook, Ore., Rep. James W. Mott (R-Orc.) announced yes terday. In a navy-authorized state ment issued here, Mott said the base would cost $7,000,000, would cover more than 1000 acres and would require 1500 men In operating personnel. Construction will start soon, ho said. :, Tiro blimps will be. of the lat est, types, Mott added, capable of long-range patrols. They will protect the northwpst coastline, guarding against enemy surface and submarine raiders. P ift e la'fnn infft of Gas Rationing dots in the rectangle above. eauld b driven for a -whole year slon. of bus routes after July 1 without . special ' permission of ODT. . Operators .of competing lines must plan Jointly for maxi mum use of equipment through pooling . of services, staggered schcdult-s, exchange of operating rights, or other means, ODT de clared. - - British Beat Off Strong Desert Attack CAIRO, Egypt, June 9 (P Free French and British imperi al defenders of the tiny oasis of Bir Hacheim, which. Is fast becoming the new Tobruk of the Libyan campaign, beat off one of - the strongest axis as saults yet - unleashed on allied positions in north Africa in ' a day-long battle yesterday, the British reported today.; For the sixth straight day the garrison's commander, General Pierre Kocnlg, an Alsatian who fought at Narvik and in the battle of Franco, flatly rejected a ceremonial Italian demand for surrender of. the post, the in land anchor of Britain's Libyan line 50 miles southwest of To bruk.- Gorman -armored units were rushed from Knightsbridge, 25 miles to the north to Join Ital ian armored forces and axis in fantry in the attack. ; ' ' Tough Texan Watches Grim fiatte From Hiding By WALTER B. CLAUSEN PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii, June 9 W) A tough, fighting Texan", who floated for 24, hours amidst the saVage Midway Island sea battle Returned 'with a stirring eyewitness account of Japanese naval destruction i as viewed from the surface of the sea wnere he hid under a seat cushion ,Vom his sunken tbrpedo plano to,1 escape' detection. ! Shot down in the morning of the first day of the historic bat tle and rescued tho next, .Ensign George H, Gay's vivid observa tions and descriptions of Ameri can successes were disclosed last night by Admiral Chester (W. Nimltz, commander-ln-chlet ; of the Pacific fleet. , , : f The navy flier from Houston, RAFOONTINUES BOMBING OF Germans Thrown Back In' -Two Sectors : On Black Sea . By ROGER D. GREENE - Associated Press War Editor Waves of British warplanes, perhaps 450 strong, visited an other night of terror, death and destruction upon Germany's in dustrial valley of the Ruhr be fore dawn today and also struck at . targets in nazl-occupied France, and Holland.. . . . .Eighteen RAF, bombers, were acknowledged missing from the overnight assaults, which follow ed a British radio broadcast urg ing people of, France to evacuate the coastal areas from the Bel gian frontier to the Pyrenees.! The broadcast warned of im pending allied operations of "cabital Importance" to be exe cuted "at the most' opportune rnoment. . . . . - V'J4itlf . BllJn' campaign, savlet: dispatch reported that German tank, troops and planes attacking, in a. five-day-old of fensive.' against Russia's long besieged Black sea "naval " base of Sevastopol. in the ' Crimea, had been thrown back, in-fierce battles in two sectors.' ..'' i By . contrast, German- field headquarters asserted that nazi infantry', supported by, heavy rtiUerV ' and strong air' squad rons, stormed soviet defenses on a height commanding Sevastopol and. repulsed Russian counter attacks with "bloody losses.1' '. Red Star said German General Fritz Erich- von. Mannstein was throwing clouds of airplanes and heavy, infantry .reinforcements into a furious attempt to .smash the Black sea base's defenses. -.Counter-attacking. . Red : army (Continued on Page Two). ; Hitler Terms Heydrich VMartyr" : BERLIN,' (FROM GERMAN BROADCASTS), June 9. (P) Adolf .Hitler termed Relnhard Heydrich,' - assassinated gestapo official, "one of our martyrs" today at a state funeral short ly after Heinrlch Himmler, head of the secret, polise .de clared '"It is, our holy duty to avenge".'- the protector of Bo hemia and Moravia, . , , Hitler made an . unannounced appearance at the funeral, leav ing : his headquarters. on ' the Russian front,' to ' confer on the slain" No.. 2 gestapo " chief t "the highest award of the German order." -. v . .' .... . (Heydrich ' died last week after-two undetected Czech as sailants had bombed his auto mobile and machineguhned'h.im. Already . 234 Czechs "have- been reported executed, in, reprisal). : Texas, is' recovering from slight wounds at a hospilalhere..-He was. shot down but not before he had his crack at the Japs. : Hits Carrier ! ' Flying with his squadron on June 4, the first day of the battle. Gay and his two mates saw three Jap aircraft carriers below them, two 'of the vessels big' 26,900 tbnn'ers of the Ka'ga class. .. v In the face of terrific anti aircraft fire1 and enemy fighter opposition, they leveled for the assault. Gay's machine-gunner Was hit; but he nosed the plane dawn, and launched a torpedo into one big carrier, then swung sharply over the target and sped away. , Buti bullets from a Jap zero fighter shot away the controls RUHR COAST He's a Bond Buyer 4J TCI V... ' ... l-X 4k" ... i v n : . This is Lewis Eddie- Metctlf, 4, son of. Mr. and Mrs. L.,D. Metcalf.' 727. Mt. Whitney street shown with the $25 war sav ings bond he bought with-1875 pennies he bad saved in a fish bowl. When an army. tank . was brought to town to promote bond sales.. Eddie was the first to show up, his pennies neatly rolled ia paper. - . . -. : : ; :'fi ".. U. S. Doing Impossible in Productiont Asserts Nelson COLUMBIA, Mo., June 9 (AP) Donald M. Nelson, who worked his way through the University of Missouri and returned today as an honored alumnus, told the 1942 graduating class that Amer ica is ' "doing the, impossible" with war production exceeding all estimates. ' ' , Confidently,' the chairman of the war production, board ' as serted "this year we shall make 60,000 airplanes, and' by the end of ' the year we shall still be picking up speed for an even faster production in 1943." " ! . . Nelson explained ' that ( "we have found that' oiir total pro duction of Nvar goods is higher than we had any reason to sup pose it could be"' when blue prints were prepared for w a r plants. ' t : "A new aircraft 'factory was put into production some time ago," he said, as an illustration "It had been designed to produce 50 airplanes a month, working: at full capacity. Now-we have discovered that its real capacity is' much -closer to' ISO' planes a month." ' . -'i ! v. , . 'i. One reason for the unexpected production, '.he- said, Vis due to Midway Place in Raft of Gay's plane. Gay was hit in the: left leg and lightly in the arm. Coolly, he pancaked his craft Into the sea several miles astern of the carrier. . His gurtner. was dead. ; His radioman, unable to free him self, went down with the plane. ' Gay's luck was with him. From the wreckage of his plane floated a bag containing a de flated life-raft, and a black cush ion of the type bombardiers use to kneel upon. He used the life raft bag to keep himself afloat, and hid under - the cushion to avoid .'detection from enemy planes and ships all about him., V Cautiously, Q ay v felt his wounded arm. The bullet, ap parently spent , when it struck - (Continued on Page. Two) the fact that the men who are making the goods , the mana gers, the engineers, the foremen and the workers , alike are working as they never worked before to make, the things .we need so desperately on the bat tle line. But beyond that, I think that what we are seeing is the natural result of the. application to-munitions -production -of the best . mass . production , tech niques." , '' ' , , .;. " j -... ! IT-- -" ! 2 Navy Blimps Lost in Crash Over Atlantic ! .- LAKEHURST, N. J., June 9 (AP) Coast guards ' recovered today three bodies and wreck age from one of two navy train ing blimps lost in what appar ently wos a mid-air collision over the Atlantic ocean while on an unexplained "experiment al mission." . ' ' - , Only one survivor was known. Still missing were nine of the 13 naval and civilian occu pants of the G-l and the smaller L-2 when they . set out last night from the naval air station at Lakchurst. The airships plunged into the ocean about four miles off Manasquan, which is IS miles northeast of Lake, hurst. Sheriff Lewis Menninger , of Ocean county reported recovery of the tlirce bodies in the gon dola of the L-2, dragged ashore at Point Pleasant beach. . Among the bodies was that of Lt. Comdr. Clinton S. Rounds of Toms River, senior officer aboard the two craft and a sur vivor of the dirigible Macon disaster off the California coast in 1933. MEDITERRANEAN SINKINGS LONDON, June 9 () The admiralty announced today that the British submarine Turbulent had sunk one Italian destroyer, three medium-sized supply ships and a small merchant ship in the central Mediterranean, s nin niTinniiin uliMI SCHEME WAITS Whole Cotintry to Aid Collection, States: Chief at Confab -. WASHINGTON. June (AP) President Roosevelt disclosed today he was planning a nation wide campaign to collect all the old,' scrap rubber In the ' coun try. -.- .. ,-, The chief executive - told.' a press conference that one of the problems involved in : the cur rent gasoline - rubber situation was the fact that there were no accurate estimates on how much scrap rubber was available. The only way to find out, he said, ia to go out and pick it up.' ' , , - He said, replying to a ques tion, that the collection' cam paign would be voluntary to the extent that if it were not entirely successful it would bo come compulsory. Gas Rationing Waits - 5 -While he would not say defii nitely that this might mean that nationwide gasoline . rationing would, not be necessary, if . the rubber collection is large enouga he indicated that at least no ste toward such rationing would b taken until the rubber drive 'if completed. Nationwide gasoline rationing has been suggested te fere the conservation of auto (.tires'," possibly starting o6out uiy xo.v-. , ... , : , . , Roosevelt said he hoped the rubber collection would get un deVway soon and would be over in two. weeKS. - -. But he admonished thai peo ; (Continued .on Page Two) -. Webb, Kennett Sells Store to ' " ' , Riehdrd.Hibbs " Webb Kennett's clothing store, Seventh- and- Mam streets,, was purchased Monday by Richard Hibbs .of Hibbs" Clothing com pany, ,4t was announced. : Ths sale was -, completed ; Monday , morning and. Hibbs -took over Kenriett's interests at;that time. ; . Kennett r came, to Klamath Falls in' 1925 as manager of the Brownsville Woolen , Mills ,at Fifth and Main streets., In 1930 he became a partner in the firm of Kirkpatrick and Kennett. , A few yeare , later he sold 'his in terests and opened' the store which he operated until the sale Monday. Kennett said he had not made definite plans, for the future. . Hibbs opened his store at 711 Main street ' in February 1939. He stated this store would be temporarily closed. Personnel al Kennett's will remain un changed,' Hibbs said. The build ing at Seventh and Main streeti is owned by Myrtle Brett . of Oaklapd. .. .... . , . . . ' Baseball NEW YORK, June 9 (UP) Hank Borowy pitched four-hit ball for his fourth victory but Buddy Hassett failed to hit safely for the first time in 21 successive games as the ; New York Yankees whipped the De-; troit Tigers 4 to I today. Joe Gordon ran his hitting streak to 26 straight games. AMERICAN LEAGUE ' R. H. E. Detroit w- 1 4 1 New York ,.4 10 0 Trout and Tebbetts; Borowy and Dickey. .- . ' R. H. E. St. Louis . . 4 8 1 Boston 7 9 1 Aukcr, Caster (7) and Hayes; Judd and Conroy. , j NATIONAL LEAGUE . R. H E. Boston 2 9 4 Pittsburgh -....,..'..10 13 1 Tost, Hutchlngs (1), Wallace ((8), and Lombardl; Heintzelman and Lopez. ' '. ! NATIONAL LEAGUE ,: ... B. H. New York ...................... 3 8 Cincinnati 1 8 0 1 Lohrman and Denning: Thompson, Shoun (1), Beggs (6) and Lamanno, . . . - a